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Taipei Restaurants (Part 1)

Posted by Chris

Taipei is a huge city with many, many different restaurants. Being (young) tourists, we wanted to see the weirdest ones first. The ones you hear about on TV or from the Internet and that probably few locals actually visit. Two restaurants stuck out in our minds; one was a bathroom/toilet themed restaurant and the other was a hospital themed restaurant. Quite honestly these places were in the back of my mind and it just took one of my friends to remind me that they're all in Taipei. The rest of the restaurants we went to were just 'normal' places around Taipei, which is far from normal to any westerner (except for Burger King!).

So after getting what seemed like 100's of photos of this place...because I mean...look at it; The seats are freaking toilets, we finally ordered. There's two quick shots of the menu below. The translations are kind of funny and be sure to order one with a toilet bowl star next to it if you want your food served in such a dish. How ridiculous is this, I mean seriously, but it was for real and we weren't the only ones with the: "dear god I need another picture," attitude. There were plenty of others.

If you're into the bizarre part of Taiwanese culture (presumably leftover from when the Japanese were around) this is probably a place you want to check out. As shown above they have menu(s) in English so ordering isn't much of a problem if you aren't fluent in Chinese. I think the ice cream looked the worst. We took full advantage of that as you probably noticed in the last few pictures =D!